Isn’t it illegal for Police to speed ? I know they can go through red lights but AFAIK it’s illegal for them to go faster than the speed limit themselves. Might be wrong though.
I thought they could only in emergency with blue lights to alert the public to the danger
but didn’t you know you eating a yorkie and driving is a emergency they need to speed to catch you and the £60 fine for diesel to bomb down the m25 all day in there bob tailed lorry
Just one question what is wrong with them having something like the google car (camera on a stick) same results better MPG
As far as speeding is concerned, Section 87 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 says:No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes, if the observance of that provision would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion.
Police vehicles, whether marked or unmarked, are exempt from virtually all road traffic laws as long as to break them is operationally necessary.
What that means is dependent on the circumstances and in each case that a police driver breaches a traffic law he or she may have to justify doing so, especially if there has been an accident.
Roymondo:
Both wrong. Any vehicle (regardless of markings and/or blue lights, siren etc) is exempt from speed limits while being used for police, ambulance, fire brigade etc purposes if keeping to the limit would hinder said purpose. There are similar exemptions from the requirement to stop at red traffic lights and the requirement to observe the directions of “Keep Left” (or Right) signs - again with no mention of blue lights and/or sirens being required.
Can you provide a link to these reguations etc?
This whole approach is a pet hate of mine. You seem more clued in than most, can you enlighten us?
just another reason to balls the job off,in ten years they wont be able to get drivers for love nor money,big fines for scratching your arse,going 3 mph too fast and working 15 hours a day to pay for it with no gratitude when you get back,sod that unless it’s a few hours a day and pays well.
Fallmonk:
Bit strange that actros mk1 very old ,
What you think a confiscated vech ?
According to Essex police website, they have owned that unit for several years, and it is normally used with their mobile police station/command post trailer at major public events etc (hence the private plate).
Registration number a bit of a giveaway A12 as in road number in Essex and EPD Essex police department ? Who came up with that in the offices ? Tax payers paid for it to be transferred ?
stobarttrucker:
just another reason to balls the job off,in ten years they wont be able to get drivers for love nor money,big fines for scratching your arse,going 3 mph too fast and working 15 hours a day to pay for it with no gratitude when you get back,sod that unless it’s a few hours a day and pays well.
Perhaps they are doing these drivers a favour by pulling them for let’s say, messing around with an ipad in lane 2 of the M25, it may of saved there life, another couple of miles down the road he could of slammed into the back of a stationary vehicle!!!
25 years driving trucks = 1 speeding ticket and 1 bollocking off the ministry, it’s not hard to stay on the right side of the law.
And it’s also not hard to not get caught on the wrong side either.
If Essex Police were genuinely interested in preventing crime they would use it to park outside a diddycoy camp and film the ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ burning the insulation off of stolen railway signalling cable rather than filming some hard-working truck driver taking a swig from a can of Tango.
Harry Monk:
If Essex Police were genuinely interested in preventing crime they would use it to park outside a diddycoy camp and film the ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ burning the insulation off of stolen railway signalling cable rather than filming some hard-working truck driver taking a swig from a can of Tango.
An unmarked Axor blends in rather better in Lane 2 on the A12 than it does outside a diddy encampment (where a Transit van might be better suited). Horses for courses, and all that.
Harry Monk:
If Essex Police were genuinely interested in preventing crime they would use it to park outside a diddycoy camp and film the ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ burning the insulation off of stolen railway signalling cable rather than filming some hard-working truck driver taking a swig from a can of Tango.
Once again harrys got it right.spot on!!
Preventing the avoidable deaths of stupid truck drivers is worth more than a few hundred quids worth of copper wiring!
Every single one of you has commented about the taxpayer, the waste of money and catching ■■■■■■ would be chortling like a schoolgirl if you saw a Polish driver just trying to earn a living getting pulled up by a police car after been spotted by this truck
Harry Monk:
If Essex Police were genuinely interested in preventing crime they would use it to park outside a diddycoy camp and film the ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ burning the insulation off of stolen railway signalling cable rather than filming some hard-working truck driver taking a swig from a can of Tango.
Once again harrys got it right.spot on!!
Preventing the avoidable deaths of stupid truck drivers is worth more than a few hundred quids worth of copper wiring!
Why exactly would you die if you took a swig of Tango while you were driving?
When I was growing up, the Soviet Union was lambasted for the level of state surveillance it carried out on its citizens, nowadays Russian tourists in London gape in amazement at the cameras everywhere. Some folk really have lost the plot.
The Russian authorities don’t need to use their own cameras - every Tom, ■■■■ and Ivan has one on his car windscreen, with the output being uploaded to his preferred video-sharing website on a daily basis.
Harry Monk:
If Essex Police were genuinely interested in preventing crime they would use it to park outside a diddycoy camp and film the ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ burning the insulation off of stolen railway signalling cable rather than filming some hard-working truck driver taking a swig from a can of Tango.
Once again harrys got it right.spot on!!
Preventing the avoidable deaths of stupid truck drivers is worth more than a few hundred quids worth of copper wiring!
Why exactly would you die if you took a swig of Tango while you were driving?
Dunno Harry, you brought tango into it! But plenty have died doing other stupid things behind the wheel.
